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​Espanyol goalkeeper Pau Lopez has signed for Tottenham on loan until the end of the season, the Premier League club have announced.

The 21-year-old stopper, capped one time at Under-21 level for Spain, is a product of the Espanyol academy, and has made 48 appearances for their first team since making his full debut in 2014.

Pau Lopez becomes Spurs’ second signing of deadline day – following the arrival of Georges-Kevin N’Koudou – and fourth of the window, with Vincent Janssen and Victor Wanyama arriving at White Hart Lane earlier in the summer.

​Tottenham have signed Georges-Kevin Nkoudou from Marseille, while Clinton Njie has joined the Ligue 1 club on loan.

The 21-year-old winger has signed a five-year contract, until 2021, Spurs announced.

Nkoudou told Spurs TV: “I can’t wait to get to know the Premier League and the English game.

“It suits my playing style, it’s explosive. Everyone knows I’m fast, I like to dribble around players so the English league is best for me.”

The winger made his senior debut for Ligue 1 side Nantes in the 2013-14 season, appearing eight times. It was the following year that he made a real impact with 32 appearances and two goals before being signed by Marseille in June 2015.

Known for his speed, he made 41 appearances in all competitions for l’OM last season, scoring 10 times and producing five assists. He was particularly prolific in the Europa League where four of his goals came.

Nkoudou is a France youth international and has been capped up to U21 level.

Chelsea Football Club and Paris Saint-Germain have agreed terms for the transfer of David Luiz back to Stamford Bridge

The move is now subject to him agreeing personal terms and passing a medical.

David Luiz has arrived in London ahead of his sensational return to Chelsea.
Luiz arrived at St Pancras railway station in London on Wednesday afternoon to finalise his £32million move back to Stamford Bridge.

The 29-year-old looked in high spirits as he prepared to put the final touches on his deadline day move back to the Blues.

Luiz, dressed in a white t-shirt and black jeans, appeared to be listening to music as he strolled through St Pancras after arriving in London via the Eurostar.

The Blues are believed to have agreed a fee in the region of £32million with Paris Saint-Germain for the Brazilian subject to a medical, which may take place after Wednesday’s 11pm deadline.

The Standing Ovation singer has recently signed with Roc Nation, and Don Jazzy revealed that the Tiwa Savage’s Roc Nation deal is only a management deal. Hence, Tiwa is still a Mavin act.

How Tiwa Savage’s Roc Nation deal works

Speaking to Notjustok TV, Don Jazzy said: “With this particular situation, Tiwa now has a new manager and for people who think she has left Mavin to Roc nation, that is not what it is. She is still signed to Mavin records as an artiste but her management is on Roc nation. It is beautiful; they have used their power to open doors that we cannot open at the moment ourselves.

“This particular deal is just a management deal for Tiwa, we are in touch with different companies including Roc Nation for distribution of Mavin in general. When it is concrete, I will come and tell you.

“The same deal that Roc nation gave to Tiwa is the same deal we have for Mavin with Temple. Temple management is a new management company and they have a lot of stuffs they want to do for Africa. For me to say that I am signing to a management company, then you should know something is up.”

There was a civil servant who lost his job. He used to be a typist but no one wants to hire the services of a typist anymore. He had six wives and many children. He is lucky to have a roof over his head even though his house is very rickety and the annual storms threaten to blow that roof away. The plumbing is broken; there is stench everywhere. His children usually have bitter fights, with some of them threatening to set this house on fire. This man admits he hasn’t quite raised some of his children properly – some are in gangs and cults, some on drugs, and others have a perpetual need to pilfer.

This piece was written by Tope Fasua. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 360Nobs.com.

His wives constantly bicker and invoke juju on each other. But his house has so many rooms – enough for all the children and wives, with even extra space to invite strangers to come and enjoy short stays. This now ex-civil servant also has a huge farmland which he inherited from his forefathers. Because his children are lazy and ill brought-up, the farm is mostly abandoned.

Now what does he do first, now that his story has changed for the worse? How is he to keep his sanity, to ensure he feeds his children, else they one day strangle him to death?

He has several options. He can go a-borrowing from his neighbors because he needs to sustain his erstwhile standards of living. He is used to opulence anyway, and owns the largest cars on his streets even though he always knew – or should have known – that he was just lucky to be a typist to some big chief executive for a spell. Everyone knew that the skills of a typist was becoming useless as everyone could now type their own documents.

Even the chief executive has learnt to produce his own documents! Yet, this ex-typist could just go borrowing since he read somewhere that it makes financial sense to borrow money to survive if one’s finances go into a trough. He could even be ‘smarter’. He could borrow with the aim of investing in a small pure water packaging plant where his many sons and daughters could be employed, or to turn around his farm.

The risk here is that he has little manufacturing – or even farming – experience and he could well mismanage these borrowed funds. His experience four decades ago when he briefly lost his job, was that the monies he borrowed for the same purpose, was frittered by the greed and recklessness of his dysfunctional family.

In the last borrowing experience, his family was thrown into embarrassing penury to the extent that his creditor neighbours took liberty to walk into his house as they wished and walk out with any asset. The insults galloped, the creditors applied punitive interest rates, his family became even poorer and more dysfunctional, his sons stole more, did more drugs, fought in the marketplace.

His daughters plied their bodies on the sidewalk to any man for a meal. He claimed that he paid far more than he borrowed to these creditors but they kept coming back for more. When he was allowed to make some lump sum payment to clear his name a few years ago, he paid an arm and a leg. But now, he is back in debt and it is so tempting to pile on much more.

Our typist friend has a few more options. He could take control of his family if it’s not way too late. He could look inwards. He could reassess his resources. He could ensure his children are dutifully engaged so that they quit being a nuisance to the world. If our friend is not a weakling this could be achieved. Still, if he asked me for advise, that is what I will tell him to do; look inwards.

First, try to sustain your family. Make sure any of your children that should be working is working. Even when work is not available, keep them busy by every means. Let them be obsessed with making your home clean and neat. That alone is a lot of work. Let them sweep, sweep and sweep again. Let them clean constantly. Let them paint your house over, and maintain the landscaping. Let them take pride in their surroundings. Let them do it so well that the world will notice and come visiting.

Make the most of your vast farmland. Engage your children there. Think about improving your every space; farmland and homestead. Get ready for the world. Pay your children with what you have; with the food from your farm. You don’t pay them with the products (currency) from another man’s farm. You have to develop a sustainability mentality. You have to believe that with such a large family, with the energy and passion of your children, with the resources you’ve always taken for granted, with the time on your hands and the 20-20 vision of hindsight, you have what it takes to be great again.

I believe this is the ONLY real option left for the ex-typist, whom many people are telling to go and get foreigners (investors), to bring money to develop his farmland for him. Whereas this is a great idea, foreigners usually have their eyes on the prize and demand more than just their investment back. Plus the fact that foreigners would usually pay a higher premium if they see that the typist has already tidied up his home, than if everything is in disarray.

I would advise the typist that he has to at least try to right the wrongs of the past. He shouldn’t make the same mistakes all over again. And he has to act immediately, because there are centripetal and centrifugal forces acting at the same time to tear his family apart and take over their house and farmland. Many people in his neighborhood believe that other families will make much more of his resources than he is presently. I will urge this ex-civil servant to note that making a great family takes a lot of painstaking work, perseverance and a long term view – which he has never had.

Dear readers, you guessed right who the ex-typist is. Just like typists are no longer needed, our crude oil is not as needed as before. Our chief executive is the USA. It now produces its own oil. But so do many other countries. In Africa alone, a handful of new oil-producing countries have emerged; from Ghana to Uganda through Kenya. Nigeria is big and beautiful enough to contain its own people and be a tourist haven. But without security – which can only be ensured by youth employment – not only will Nigerians keep running away to other climes, no sane tourist will visit us. The other options are no-brainers. They say when in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging. We couldn’t have gone through the debt crisis of the 1980s to 2006 and be toying with repeating the process. Borrowing from the World Bank and IMF – contrary to what the minister of Finance says – cannot be our ONLY option.

IMF and World Bank loans should not be made to sound so benign. Their rates may be low, and they may give moratoria, but in the realm of international finance, these ‘supranational’ bodies have FIRST CHARGE. They have arranged things such that no one can default against their loans. They get paid first, followed by others. Local holders of bonds get paid last.

But the debate is still on. I may be wrong. The typist is still consulting far and wide. What would you advise him to do given his circumstance, his history, and his ambitions?

After last featuring in the Premier League with Sunderland two years ago, Alonso revealed his delight at returning to play in England.

“I’m very happy. It’s a step up in my career and I think this is the perfect place for me to continue developing,” revealed the 25-year-old. “It’s time for me to win some titles.

“It was an easy decision for me to make when I heard the club were interested in signing me.

“My family and close friends know Chelsea is the club I have dreamed about playing for so I’m really excited about the challenge and I’m looking forward to working with my new team-mates.”

The Blues have also been linked with re-signing Brazil defender David Luiz, whom they sold to Paris St Germain for £50million prior to the 2014 World Cup, ahead of Wednesday’s closure of the transfer window.

An official date has been announced for the release of the nominees for the Lagos Fashion Awards 2016.

Royhills Fashion House, organiser of the Lagos Fashion Awards 2016 revealed this in a statement. “We wish to appreciate the general public, sponsors, partners and most especially the social media community for a successful nominee submission phase which ended on the 31st of August, 2016.”

The search gets tougher as we hit over 285,000 nominees submissions online. Only the 6 nominees with highest number of entries will be eligible for voting. The names of these nominees will be released on the 24th of September, 2016.

​Middlesbrough have signed Aston Villa’s Spanish winger Adama Traore on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee

Traore, 20, joined Villa one year ago from Barcelona for a reported £7m and is Boro’s 11th senior signing of the summer transfer window.

“He is another important player and I am expecting a lot from him,” said Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka.

Adama Traore reportedly frustrated Tim Sherwood, Remi Garde and Eric Black with his tactical approach, meaning he failed to start a single Premier League game despite being on £40,000 per week for Aston Villa

NBA star Nick Young believes Chris Brown is just too “hot” right now so he’s begging the singer to get out of their neighborhood before something goes wrong.

Chris Brown and the LAPD were involved in a 14-hour standoff at his valley home residence in Tarzana, California, after he was accused of pulling a gun at a woman, Baylee Curran, Miss California regional 2016.

LAPD showed up at his home early Tuesday morning, August 30, and the father-of-one shut the door at their faces for intending to search his home without a warrant.

Chris Brown shared during his stand-off, where he complained about being woken up from sleep by choppers and LAPD SWAT Team, “When you get the warrant for whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing, you idiots.”

Nick Young (standing in white tee shirt) and Chris Brown (wearing a black jersey) at a basketball game.

You gotta go, mahn

The Lakers shooting guard who lives in the same neighborhood with Brown said on Instagram:

We only have about five or six black people over here anyway, this nigga had to go fuck it up, the way people looking, men.

They gon take me, you and cut us short. I don’t want to get cut short from over here.

There’s been only two of us over here though at this rate there’s going make it one.

So please, I like you men, you’re my dawg. We go out but we go out away from here.

Go, you know I love you men but peace.

Young got dragged by fans as some called him a sly for throwing Brown under the bus. Others thought he was just excluding himself from the drama.

After LAPD officials showed up at Chris Brown’s home with a warrant, the singer came out of his home.

LA Times reporters, Richard Winton and Brittny Mejia said, “L.A. police officers took Chris Brown into custody late Tuesday afternoon and said the singer would be arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.”

Chris Brown has been released from police custody after he was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on Tuesday.

The 27 year old singer’s attorney, Mr Mark Geragos tweeted earlier today that his client had been released adding “The allegations against him are demonstrably false”.

The arrest at Brown’s Los Angeles home took place after a 14-hour standoff. It only ended after police obtained a search warrant to enter the residence.

Baylee Curran

All over jewelry

A guest at Chris Brown’s home, Baylee Curran is currently the 2016 Miss California Regional title holder. She recently told her story to Good Morning America. She said that the artiste had pointed a gun at her face after she complemented another man’s jewelry.

Police described Brown as being “cooperative” and did not confirm if they recovered any weapons from his home. He was released on $250,000 bail and his court date is set for September 20.

​Werder Bremen have completed the signing of Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry for a reported fee of £5 million.

Gnabry leaves England five years after joining Arsenal from Stuttgart as a 16-year-old and will join his new teammates on Sept. 7 following Germany’s under-21 match in Finland next Tuesday.

“I’m very happy to be here,” he told the club website. “I had very good talks with the management and that has lead me here to Werder and the Bundesliga. The Olympics were a personal highlight for me and I’d like to carry on my development here at Werder.

“I’m confident we’ll have a successful season and push for the top half of the table.”

At Bremen, he is set to link-up with a strong attack which includes former Germany international Max Kruse, veteran striker Claudio Pizarro and United States international Aron Johannsson.

​Sunderland have completed the signing of Didier Ndong from Lorient for £13.6million.

The 22-year-old has penned a five-year contract with the Black Cats to become David Moyes’ seventh new arrival of the summer.

Didier Ndong was born in Gabon but started his professional football career as a youngster in Tunisia in 2011.
“I am very proud and happy to sign for Sunderland,” the Gabon international told the club’s official website.

“This is a new adventure for me and to play in the Premier League is a dream come true.

“Maybe the Sunderland fans don’t know me yet, but I promise that they will quickly discover that I will give everything for them and the club. It will be an honour to wear the Sunderland shirt and I will wear it with a true understanding of what it means.

“I am excited to meet everyone at the club, to see the stadium and of course the fans, who I have heard so many good things about. Today is the most beautiful day of my life.”

Chris Brown is looking at spending three-years in prison if found guilty of possessing a gun after he was accused by a woman of threatening her with one.

The woman, identified as Miss California Regional 2016, Baylee Curran, said she had been admiring the neck piece of a friend of Brown’s when he got mad and pulled a gun at her.

Curran was then escorted off his residence where she placed a call to 911 to report the singer. Brown on the other hand claimed she was among uninvited guests who had come into his home.

The Sex You Back To Sleep didn’t make things easy for himself as he kept the L.A police who showed up at his Corbin avenue home in Tarzana, CA, outside for up to 14 hours till they obtained a search warrant before he agreed to come out of his home.

And even that he did, only when his lawyer, Mark Geragos interceded.

Chris Brown

Spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, Lt. Chris Ramirez, said Brown was escorted from his Tarzana home, Tuesday, August 30, to downtown L.A., where he was formally booked with for suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

After his exit from the home, Robbery-Homicide Division officials began searching Brown’s property for the evidence of the gun with his lawyer, Geragos being present.

According to TMZ, police have retrieved at least one gun, other weapons and drugs from Chris Brown’s home, after Chris threw a duffel bag out the window of his home.

Curran said she had visited Brown’s home with two friends, one of whom was a business associate of Chris Brown and had been invited by him. Curren claimed she came along to discuss some future projects with him.

Upon entering his home, she had to drop her phone as that was part of the condition before getting into his house.

A hand full of people were sitting about chatting so she stepped out for a bit of air and the confrontation ensued after she stepped back in.

Curran stated she had seen a friend of Chris’ showcasing jewelry such as diamond bracelets, necklaces and watches inside the home and began to admire a diamond cross necklace when the friend lashed out at her before Chris got riled up.

Baylee Curran

Curran told LA Times, “I don’t know if it was Chris’ friend or how he was related, but that’s when he told me to back away from the diamond necklace and started cussing me out and calling me names. That’s when Chris pulled his gun and told me to ‘Get out.’ He said ‘I’m sick of you girls, get the F out!’”

The model said she ran out of his home with her friend but had to wait at the front gate upon remembering she had left her phone behind.

A companion of Brown came to hand her the phone but insisted she would first sign a non-disclosure and she refused.

Miss Curan claimed she snatched the phone from him and both her and her friend ran out towards one of Chris’s neighbor’s property with the companion dashing towards a jeep to give chase.

She added that it was Brown’s neighbor who called the police.

If found guilty, Brown would be facing a three-year prison sentence for possessing a fire-arm.

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy is officially in a recession. The latest growth figures show the economy contracted by 2.06% between April and June.

Nigeria has been battling low petroleum prices, attacks by oil militants and foreign currency shortages with recent data showing that the gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 2.06% and the oil and import dependent economy declined by 0.36% in the first quarter of the year.

Crude oil sales amount to about 70% of the government income and that has been greatly affected as the price of oil has fallen from the highs of $112 a barrel in 2014 to below $50 a barrel at the moment. Outside the oil industry, figures show that the fall of the Naira also hurt the economy as the non-oil sector in the country also declined by 0.38%.

According to critics, government policies as well made a bad situation even worse. The decision to delay the devaluation of the Naira meant most businesses struggled to get foreign currency to pay for imports,which had a cooling effect on the entire economy.

Foreign investors, wary of the Nigerian government’s controversial currency peg avoided pumping money into the country which led to a record decline in capital importation,reported Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics. The $647.1 million worth of capital inported into Nigeria in the second quarter of the year represented a fall of 75.73% compared to 2015. “This provisional figure would be the lowest level of capital imported into the economy on record, and would also represent the largest year on year decrease” said the statistics agency.

The woman who is accusing Chris Brown of threatening her with a gun has been identified as Baylee Curran.

Curran is the 2016 winner of the Miss California Regional which she shared when she won on her social media writing, “Am I still dreaming !!!!!!!! Is this real life!! #MissCalifornia #DreamsComeTrue.”

Baylee Curran, Miss California Regional

According to the Miss California Regional State website, the “pageant looks for well rounded ladies next door who are dedicated to community service, academic achievements and having their voices heard in their communities.”

In an interview with Dailymail, the 25-year-old said she had never met Brown before yet Yahoo Celebrity reported “she has hung out with the singer in the past and that everything has always been smooth.”

Baylee Curran

The site quoted TMZ while dishing on Curran and her meet-ups with Brown as saying, “The first couple times I hung out with him it was with Justin Bieber and it was very nice, light, we played hide and go seek … went swimming, it was all good.”

She asserted on her Instagram which is now private that she was also friends with Justin Beiber, his pal Lil Twist, Drew Barrymore and Corey Feldman.

The actress posted snaps of herself at dinner with Feldman.

Curran also shared a photo of herself with Dr Dre with the caption, “Back when Dr Dre and I weere cool. Lol we still be cooool.”

According to her IMDb profile, Curran was born June 6, 1991.

Her profile read, “Baylee Curran is an on screen actress, model, red carpet host, and former Miss California Regional. She is known for her lead roles in “Cold Blooded” , “The Prodigal Son”, and the International Hair Commercial for Moehair. She is on billboards in every country including the Middle East and Europe. Baylee currently holds the title of 2016 Miss California USA Ambassador and also Egypt’s 2016 Miss Love and Peace. Due to Baylee being a professional equestrian, she is athletic and does all of her own stunts.”

“She got me through my darkest times,” Rob said to the magazine about Chyna. “I wasn’t happy in my own skin. I missed out on so many things.”

“I’ve been friends with Chyna for a long time,” he adds. “She was someone I reached out to for advice. She would cook for me and we’d just talk. She’s surrounded me with a lot of positivity. From the moment we met, I knew I wanted to be more than friends.”

“Chyna definitely motivates me,” says Kardashian. “Being with her got me over the insecurity of being out in public. We just want to live our lives the way we want to,” he says. “There were definitely dark days for me, and I’m still not fully happy looking at myself in the mirror. But I’m working towards that. And I’m happy.”

Popular Nigerian comedian, Bowoto Jephthah Oluwatiseyifunmi, better known as Akpororo, has announced that his wife, Josephine gave birth to a bouncing baby girl on Tuesday, August 30, 2016.

Clearly excited about the news, the comedian took to his Instagram account to welcome the new bundle of joy to their family as he better described her as the “Princess of Roro Kingdom”.

Comedian Akpororo And Wife Welcome Bouncing Baby Girl

He wrote: “You are welcome to my world the princess of RORO KINGDOM, thank you for bringing JOY to our world. Now u can call me papa somebody, @jose_bowoto you are the best woman in the world, I love you like kilode.“

The couple got married on November 14, 2015, at Eagle’s Club in Surulere, Lagos: Encomium

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International superstar Seyi Shay releases brand new photos to the public. She takes a mature yet sexy approach to her brand as she releases photos shot by extraordinary photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo.

Seyi Shay who began 2016 in a very eventful mood has donned headlines and toured cities around the world since she released her debut album “Seyi or Shay” last November. Fans currently can’t get enough of her soulful single “Air Brush” which speaks directly to the heart, the Pepsi ambassador has continued to gain more strides in the industry as she overcomes critics & shines her light on some of the biggest stages around the world. After the year she has had so far she is refreshed and looking forward to the next chapter in her glittering career.

Seyi Shay is currently working on her first EP with her International Record Label, Island Records and the Air Brush crooner has bagged several nominations since the past month as she is on the running for the biggest honours at awards like the Nigerian Entertainment Awards 2016 and the All Africa Music Awards 2016.

Look forward to more from Seyi Shay who has begun to place more emphasis on humanitarianism, charity & equality for all, she recently stated that her recent involvement with the United Nations will be followed by more humanitarian work especially for women and children.

The African Entertainment Legend Awards (AELA) has released the nomination list for its award show which is scheduled to take place in Lagos, Nigeria on November 27, 2016.

The theme for this year’s edition, which is tagged “THE CHRONICLES”, has 30 award categories with over 200 nominees across Africa including 10 Lifetime achievers and iconic Awards.

The award show, is an annual celebration of the most African Distinguished Acts, in Music, Film production, Cinemas, Brands, Personalities, Broadcasting, Comedy, Fashion, Media, Movie, Modeling and Magazines.

The nomination list, which graced the names of notable artists, comedians, movie directors, fashion designers among others, had 360Nobs nominated in the “Most Popular Blog Site” category in Africa.

You will be allowed to start casting your votes as from on September 5, via the official website of AELA, www.aelaawards.com.

Introducing sensational RnB/afrocentric singer and entertainer “VERCHI” with his latest single titled “TODAY Or TOMORROW ” after his previous single Jekowale feat. Seyi shay. This classic piece shows a bit of his vocal ability expressing the desire of every man or woman to settle with that special someone in his lyrics.

We all have dreams and goals we wish to accomplish today or tomorrow. Some of which is to get money, fame, wealth and married with kids. Well , today or tomorrow never ends!

This single today or tomorrow was produced by El Chiby with its piano by Ovistebrown (Dyksen) and engineered by Dr Jazz. Download this exceptional tune with bonus track titled “REVERSE” produced by DJ Coublon.

​According to Sky Sports AC Milan have enquired about signing Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas but he will be staying at Stamford Bridge

Cesc Fabregas has played only 12 minutes of Chelsea’s opening three Premier League games this season.

Reports in the national press subsequently said Fabregas was of interest to huge clubs such as Real Madrid, Juventus, and former club Barcelona.

But following the win over the Hammers, Conte insisted Fabregas had a future at Chelsea and Sky sources understand the 29-year-old is keen to prove his worth under the Italian.
Conte said: “Cesc is Chelsea’s player, and I’m happy about him, with his attitude and behaviour.
He must know from before that when we are a great team like Chelsea it can happen that I have to take a decision before the game to choose a starting XI.

“That can happen that Fabregas is not in the starting XI, but it can happen for all the players. It’s important to see always the right attitude. Because we must fight this season and it’s important to stay together in every situation.”